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	Robots & Electronic Brains - eclectic music zine
		Slovakia was an integral part of Hungary and Hungarian was the legal language but most normal people didn't speak it.
		Music Commissions classified not a band's originality but whether they were politically correct.
		Music Box (music.box.sk) is run by one, or two fans.
	www.robotsandelectronicbrains.co.uk /features/slovakia (5227 words)

	Music of Slovakia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Popular music began to replace folk music beginning in the 1950s when Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia).
		Slovak popular music began as a mix of bossa nova, cool jazz and rock, with propagandistic lyrics.
		After the Velvet Revolution and the declaration of the Slovak state, domestic music greatly diversified as free enterprise allowed a great expansion in the number of bands and genres represented in the Slovak market.
	www.encyclopedian.com /sl/Slovakian-music.html (290 words)

	Slovakia from A-Z
		The GLOBAL POSTION of Slovakia is approximately 47 south latitude to 49 degrees north latitude, and 22 degrees east longitude to 18 degrees west longitude.
		The extensive musical heritage of Slovakia is reflected in an exhibition of keyboard instruments in Markuovce.
		Slovakia is a member of several International Organizations including the United Nations (U.N), the Council of Europ (CE), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio (NATO).
	www.geocities.com /countriesatoz/Slovakia.html (3079 words)

	stahel(michal)
		Michal Stahel was born 1979 in Bratislava (Slovakia) into a musical family and began to play the cello in the age of six yers.
		His musical education began in comparatively young age, as an eleven-year old he was an exceptional student at the Bratislava conservatory.
		His performances at various music festivals in Slovakia and abroad, for example at the Kultur-Festival im Weinviertel in Retz (Austria), Hietzinger Herbst in Vienna and the Klosterneuburg Festival (Austria) are also part of his varied artistic undertakings.
	www.musiciansgallery.com /start/strings/cellos/stahel(michal).html (567 words)

	Music: Historical Lifeblood of a Culture (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
		The instruments mostly associated with a traditional Gypsy orchestra in Slovakia and Hungary are violins, double bass, clarinet and dulcimer.
		There are two main Roma groups in present Slovakia: the long settled and sedentary Rumungro Roma (the word Rumungro means Hungarian Roma) and the Olah or Wallachian Roma who remained nomadic in the former Czechoslovakia until the 60's.
		Presently, we can speak of two categories of Romany music in Slovakia: phurikane gil'a (ancient songs) which are made up of the so called halgató (slow songs) and csardasz (dance songs); and neve gil'a (new songs), also called 'pop-rom'.
	www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/13_music.html (619 words)

	Fujara - Musical Instrument and its Music
		The main tube of the flute has a length of 160 to 200 cm and is connected to a shorter tube of 50 to 80 cm through which the airflow is channeled to the edge of the large bass flute.
		The melancholic and rhapsodic music is structured according to the content of the songs, related to the shepherds’ daily life and their work.
		In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Fujara became known and appreciated beyond the shepherds’ use.
	www.unesco.org /culture/intangible-heritage/37eur_uk.htm (337 words)

	The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper
		Similarly to the previous year of this biannual festival, which was dedicated to the music of Arvo Pärt, the organisers decided to invite a famous composer to Bratislava for a couple of days.
		The musical texture of her works is so homogeneous that one never knows what instruments are really playing, as is the case in her Offertorium.
		Her music was not recognized in the Soviet Union because of its modern language.
	www.slovakspectator.sk /clanok.asp?cl=14487 (906 words)

	Europe Jazz Network - Shems music artists on tour 2006
		Thanks to a careful choice of musicians, who join him in his musical fantasy, Lulo Reinhardt is bringing up a top-level performance that enchants any audience.
		The band released two records with different music styles, which aim is to preserve Gypsy music for a large public.
		Kokavakere lavutara is one of the last gypsy band in Slovakia to play traditional Roma music as they learned from generation to generation, touching every audience with the musicians´ spontaneity, and having stand up and dance the most conservative ones.
	www.ejn.it /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=710 (342 words)

	Robots & Electronic Brains - eclectic music zine
		And this music is not distributed in Slovakia, and about most indie bands you won't find anything in magazines.
		Slovakia was an integral part of Hungary and Hungarian was the legal language but most normal people didn't speak it.
		Music Commissions classified not a band's originality but whether they were politically correct.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jennygeorge/robots/features/slovakia/index.html (5227 words)

	Music of Slovakia
		Popular music began to replace folk music beginning in the 1950s, when Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia; American jazz, R&B;, and rock and roll were popular, alongside waltzes, polkas, and czardas, among other folk forms.
		Folk instruments include the fujara (a flute), bagpipes, and others, used to make dance music called czardas.
		Lyrics often concern a local hero named Janosik, a legendary highwayman who brought justice for the oppressed and poor.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/mu/music_of_slovakia.html (358 words)

	Open Directory - Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Music
		Devachan Music - A music publishing company owned by Mark Simos, a tunesmith, songwriter, dance fiddler, and traditional accompanist on piano and guitar.
		Music Centre Slovakia - Publishes the works of composer Jan Levoslav Bella (1843-1936), educational music, and books on music in Slovak language.
		Wolfmusic Publications, Ltd. - A classical music publisher whose mission is the publication of piano music that has been previously unavailable in modern notation.
	dmoz.org /Business/Publishing_and_Printing/Publishing/Music (1232 words)

	Slovakia \| Iamic
		Music Centre Slovakia is a State-subsidised institution established by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
		The communications department promotes Slovak music in Slovakia and abroad through international music festivals, concerts and musicological events.
		Thanks to a proposal by the Music Centre Slovakia, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic announced 2006 to be Year of Slovak Music.
	www.iamic.net /slovakia (116 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Popular music began to replace folk music beginning in the 1950s, when Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia; American jazz, R&B, and rock and roll were popular, alongside waltzes, polkas, and czardas, among other folk forms.
		Folk groups typically consist of violins, double bass and cymbalum, performing various genres of usually dance music, like Verbung, or Czardas in southern, Hungarian influenced regions.
		Such dance folk music was frequently performed by traveling gipsy groups.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Music_of_Slovakia (481 words)

	MusicMoz - Business: Publishers
		Carlin America - Independent music publishing conglomerate, with a catalog of pop, rock, country, showtune and standard song classics for the entertainment industries.
		International Music Co. - It publishes a wide catalog of music for all instruments; catalogs are available for downloading.
		The Music Makers - [London, UK] Offers a catalog of liturgical music for the Roman Catholic church.
	musicmoz.org /Business/Publishers (1510 words)

	Music Centre Slovakia
		The Music Centre is a State-subsidised institution established by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
		In 1997, it was integrated in the National Music Centre, while in 1999 the Slovkoncert was turned into the Music Centre consisting of four departments: publishing, documentation, external relations and economy.
		Music Centre Slovakia is a member of international associations:
	www.hc.sk /src/index.php?lg=en (105 words)

	Book Journeys -- Music, Dance & Opera
		History and criticism of music in Slovakia and old Slavic music.
		Donakowski, Conrad L. A Muse for the Masses: Ritual and Music in an Age of Democratic Revolution, 1770-1870.
		Formal features of music are illustrated in both the text and the appendix and eighteen songs which the author collected are given with their notation.' - Front dust jacket flap.
	www.bookjourneys.com /music.html (1636 words)

	Music of Slovakia: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Popular music began to replace folk music beginning in the 1950s, when Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia; American jazz, RandB, and rock and roll were popular, alongside waltzes, polkas, and czardas, among other folk forms.
		Lyrics often concern a local hero named Jánošík, a legendary highwayman who brought justice for the oppressed and poor.
		In November 2005 the fujara and its music were named Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Music_of_Slovakia (517 words)

	Eastern Slovakia, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy Research
		The Eastern Slovakia, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogical Research Page offers tools, resources, and information to help you search your Slovak or Carpatho-Rusyn family history and ancestry.
		If you have questions about genealogy and research relating to Slovakia, stop in at our Eastern Slovakia Genealogical Research Question and Answer Forum and post your question.
		The Slovak Music Shop has a large selection of traditional Slovak folk music.
	www.iarelative.com /slovakia.htm (498 words)

	Slovak string music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Belonging to the same continuum of small string ensemble music that stretches from Romanian Transylvania through Hungary, the Czech Republic and up to the Zakopane region of Southern Poland, the string band music of Slovakia and Moravia is unique and there are many treasures.
		When I visited Slovakia in the mid 80s, still firmly under socialism, I learned that if I were permitted to enter Slovakia for research, I would most likely not be permitted to leave the city of Bratislava.
		In Slovakia it was to be a different matter and I gave up.
	aris.ss.uci.edu /rgarfias/kiosk/slovak.html (374 words)

	Keller (Texas) First UMC's Music Ministry to Slovakia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In July 2005 a mission team from First United Methodist Church of Keller, Texas, went to Slovakia to join their partner church in Trnava for a music ministry throughout the country.
		We came to Slovakia with a plan of encouraging Methodist congregations and instead we worshipped with them.
		This music mission trip may be harder to describe than others.
	gbgm-umc.org /VIM/news/keller_slovakia.htm (514 words)

	Juliet Palmer: program notes
		In her score for Cypress, Juliet Palmer was drawn to the rich web of connections the double bass and clarinet draw across musical cultures: from klezmer, tango, and gypsy music to Indian film scores.
		The motif is widespread: several years later, walking through the ruined architecture of the Syrian city of Apamea, I found tumbled-down stones of Roman structures bearing this same pattern, rain-washed stones in a field of crocuses.
		I imagined a piece of music which travelled with the reader: pressing forward, pausing, repeating, circling back…a process of rereading in which certain images start to resound, gaining clarity with each recurrence.
	www.music.princeton.edu /~juliet/works.html (4299 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Her music is characteristic for lyricism, poetics and strong ties to the folk tradition.”
		The atmosphere of student unrests, barricades, the poetics of chansons and traditional French ballads, and the strong wave of folk movement worldwide — all of this inspired Zuzana Homolova to research and sing old Slovak folk ballads accompanying herself with an acoustic guitar.
		The album was produced by Vlastimil Redl, foremost songwriter from Morava (Czech Republic) whose musical collages emphasize dark, hundreds of years old stories of love and death.
	worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=3423 (730 words)

	Dino Mastroyiannis - Greek Pianist
		He took his first lessons in music in Volos, as a pupil of Eli Adam.
		Afterwards, he continued his studies on a scholarship in the Conservatory of Athens in Alice Vatikioti's class (student of Friedrich Wuehrer), where he graduated with a Soloist Diploma with the highest mark «Excellent unanimously and the First Prize».
		He is a graduated of upper theoretical studies in music of the Conservatory of Piraeus, and also a graduated of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in the Music Department.
	www.musiciansgallery.com /start/keyboards/pianists/mastroyiannis(dino).html (616 words)

	Music - Culture - Slovakia - Europe
		Music has long occupied an important and distinguished place in Slovak cultural life.
		In the first half of the 19th century, a national musical tradition began to develop around Slovakia’s impressive folk heritage.
		Modern Slovak music has drawn from both classical and folk styles.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/slovakia/culture/music.htm (71 words)

	Tours Slovakia Czech Poland Hungary Romania Ukraine
		Tours to Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine.
		Climb up to Beckov Castle ruins and be lord of all you survey; a castle that legend says a king built for his jester.
		Immerse in the beauty, history and folk culture of Slovakia beginning in Bratislava in Slovakia's west and ending in Kosice in the east.
	www.our-slovakia.com (408 words)

	Sarah Meredith, Music Program, UW-Green Bay
		She was the recipient of the International Rotary Teaching Grant for University Teachers, being hosted by Rotary District 6220, Slovakia-Czech Republic, teaching at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and the Catholic Conservatory of Music in Bratislava, Slovakia, for the 2001-2002 academic year.
		She has organized student groups and musicians and performed musical theater and light American opera in the Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Rumania since 1993.
		In November, 2002, she was invited as the first American artist to perform at the 21 st Festival of Contemporary Music in Bratislava, Slovakia, as well as at the Autumn Festival in Banska Bystrica, where she will be making a return performance in October, 2004.
	www.uwgb.edu /music/faculty/meredith.htm (375 words)

	Folk Music - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Folk Music - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Bowed string instruments predominate in a variety of Slovakian instrumental ensembles.
		In this example from northern Slovakia, three musicians...
	encarta.msn.com /related_761554209_8.23/Slovakia.html (27 words)

	Music from Slovakia - Maja Velsicova
		It is a collection a beautiful Christmas music - from traditional spiritual "Daj Boh Stastia" to new "Tu Su Vianoce".
		Enjoy beautiful voices and joyful Christmas music from Slovakia.
		The music samples are in the Windows Media Player format.
	www.velsicova.com /music.htm (109 words)

	Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details: Bratislava Conservatory Chamber Choir
		Bill specializes in church music and is the artistic director and conductor of Adoremus-Slovak Catholic Church Choir.
		As the head of the Church Music Department since 1990, and conductor of the Bratislava Conservatory Choir, he has contributed to the international acceptance and artistic success of the choir and Slovak sacred music.
		Bratislava Conservatory Chamber Choir is a national treasure of Slovakia known throughout Europe, the U.S., and Australia as ambassadors of Slovakian culture.
	www.kennedy-center.org /programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=BRATISLAVA (354 words)

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